Skopun
Skopun is a town in the Faroe Islands situated on the northern coast of Sandoy. Skopun is the second-largest town on the island. Skopun Municipality consists only of the town of Skopun.Places of Interest
Highlights include Skopunar kirkja.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hestur and Kirkjubøur.
Hestur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hestur is an island in the central Faroe Islands, to the west of Streymoy and the south of Koltur. Hestur means horse in Faroese. On the west coast is a guillemot colony. Hestur is situated 6 km north of Skopun.
Kirkjubøur
Village
Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Streymoy is the largest of the Faroe Islands. The 24,700 inhabitants make up nearly half of the population of the Faroe Islands. Kirkjubøur is situated 7 km northeast of Skopun.
Sandur
Village
Photo: EileenSanda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandur is a village on the south coast of the island of Sandoy in the Faroe Islands. The Sandur hoard of silver coins, dating to the end of the 11th century, attests to the long history of the village. Sandur is situated 8 km southeast of Skopun.
Skopun
- Type: Village with 485 residents
- Description: settlement on Sandoy, Faroe Islands
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Skopun, Sandoyar, Faroe Islands, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.90394° or 61° 54′ 14″ northLongitude
-6.88464° or 6° 53′ 5″ westPopulation
485Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)United Nations Location Code
FO SFJOpen location code
9CHMW438+H4OpenStreetMap ID
node 29023803OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Skopun” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Skopun”
- Chinese: “斯科彭”
- Czech: “Skopun”
- Danish: “Skopen”
- Danish: “Skopun”
- Dutch: “Skopun”
- Faroese: “Skopun”
- French: “Skopun”
- German: “Skopun”
- Greek: “Σκόπουν”
- Hebrew: “סקופן”
- Hungarian: “Skopun”
- Icelandic: “Skopun”
- Irish: “Skopun”
- Kalaallisut: “Skopun”
- Lithuanian: “Skopunas”
- Manx: “Skopun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skopen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skopun”
- Norwegian: “Skopun”
- Polish: “Skopun”
- Romanian: “Skopun”
- Spanish: “Skopun”
- Swedish: “Skopun”
- Turkish: “Skopun”
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